Author Archives: Sumair

Final Project Plan

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A framework for Decentralization

Social networking forms an important part of online activities of Web users. Web sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Orkut have millions of users using them everyday. However, these sites present two problems. Firstly, these sites form information silos. Information … Continue reading

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Personas and Scenarios II

These are some of the remaining possible scenarios Scenario 3: Actor: An existing social network Context: An existing social network such as Facebook, Orkut wants to add new features to its existing set of online socialising facilities or it’s reviewing … Continue reading

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Research Work: Formalizing Tagging

Taxonomy of Tagging After looking at numerous publications and web content over the internet I am going to write the first edition of findings. While we sometimes refer to social tagging systems as a coherent set of applications, it is … Continue reading

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News: Facebook Launches the New and Improved Photo Tagging

You can now tag photos with the names of pages, in addition to people on your friends list who haven’t opted out of the capability in their security settings. This drastically improves upon even the promised enhancements originally announced in … Continue reading

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Personas and Scenarios

In this post I have captured some possible scenarios of our project, since its targeting both the end users and the social enterprise; I have considered scenarios from both perspectives. Let’s name some of the potential users of our product, … Continue reading

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Week 7

This week we discussed the status of activities that has been done and it was decided that in the next meeting, the easter work should be decided . It was also decided that the scope of the project must be … Continue reading

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Tagging:What it is

Considering this a social networking system/project, the term feasibility is very broad. It can include the items of the pre-requirement report of a conventional software project and literature from computer science and non-computer science fields. Therefore, we have to include … Continue reading

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Initial Project Plan

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